Firefighters are battling inferno
HEMEL HEMPSTEAD, England — Firefighters used chemical foam to extinguish part of the inferno raging today at an oil depot north of Londo...
BEIJING — Residents of a southern Chinese village near Hong Kong where police opened fire on demonstrators described a tense standoff in the area on Saturday with thousa...
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran's top nuclear official said Saturday his country will enrich uranium and produce nuclear fuel despite the U.S.-led international campaign to persuade...
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Kidnappers holding four Westerners made no contact with Iraqi authorities on Saturday, the day they had set as a deadline to kill the Christian peace act...
MECCA, Saudi Arabia — Leaders from more than 50 Muslim countries promised Thursday to fight extremist ideology, saying they would reform textbooks, restrict religious ed...
CAIRO, Egypt — A statement signed by an Iraqi insurgent group said Thursday in an Internet posting that it killed a kidnapped U.S. security consultant. The White House s...
JIAMUSI, China — China is considering building a dam to reduce the impact of a river-borne toxic spill expected to arrive in a Russian city early next week, state media ...
GENEVA — A new Red Cross emblem was accepted at an international conference today over Syrian objections, paving the way for Israel to join the humanitarian movement.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq — Gunmen killed three police officers early today when they burst into a hospital in the northern city of Kirkuk and freed a wounded man who had been arres...
TEHRAN, Iran — A military plane loaded with Iranian journalists crashed into a 10-story apartment building Tuesday as the pilot attempted an emergency landing after deve...
